Do certain rituals adapt to psychology or does psychology adapt to rites? Post mortem photography: the last “picture of life” in “death”

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Silvia Iorio
Department of Molecular Medicine, Unit of History of Medicine,Sapienza University of Rome

Valentina Gazzaniga
Rosagemma Ciliberti
Marta Licata

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In death and mourning, why should we think that rites adapt to psychology and not vice-versa? Or believe that psychological workings grow into a rite or ritual? When analysing practices related to rites of passage, death emerges as a rupture – or breakage – of social status. 

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Oct 7, 2020
DOI https://doi.org/10.23750/abm.v92i1.9114

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Iorio S, Gazzaniga V, Ciliberti R, Licata M. Do certain rituals adapt to psychology or does psychology adapt to rites? Post mortem photography: the last “picture of life” in “death”. Acta Biomed [Internet]. 2020 Oct. 7 [cited 2023 Mar. 24];92(1):Epub ahead of print. Available from: https://mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/actabiomedica/article/view/9114
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Vol. 92 No. 1 (2021): Vol. 92 No. 1 (2021): COVID-19 Update
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MEDICAL HUMANITIES

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